The Big Ten GIS Conference The Big Ten GIS Conference is a virtual event with presentations, panels, and a map gallery.

For all those attending the (virtual & free) Big Ten GIS Conference, check out the keynote by a DRP volunteer extraordinaire - Frank Donnelly!

gin.btaa.org/conference/

Had a great time in SF recently speaking @archive.org, meeting many folks that @datarescueproject.org has been working with. One outcome is this pledge committing to preserve and expand access to US government data and research. Please read, sign, share, and take action! publicinformationtrust.org

📣 Registration for the 2026 July ESIP Meeting is now open!

We're excited to gather again this July to connect with each other and explore this year’s theme, “Bridging Divides.” 🌎 The ESIP Meeting takes place July 28-31 in Austin, TX.

📆 Start your planning today! 2026julyesipmeeting.sched.com

A Disappearing Data Chronology About the ExhibitThe Disappearing Data Chronology documents fundamental changes to the federal information landscape under the Trump administration, including major data losses and restorations, legal...

ICYMI: The @nsarchive.bsky.social published the new Disappearing Data Chronology to track major data losses (and wins!) of the last year.

As @lyndamk.bsky.social put it in an email, we’re going to need resources like these “in putting the pieces back together.”
nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...

RLUK26 Keynote | Lynda Kellam, University of Pennsylvania YouTube video by ResearchLibrariesUK

Love the concept of "Stewardship as civic commitment" that @lyndamk.bsky.social discussed in her RLUK26 keynote about the @datarescueproject.org. Definitely something to extend everywhere we have skills, interests, and concerns! youtu.be/nlyIDEaOOlU?...

For absolutely no reason at all, we've decided our only #MemeMonday this month will be #BobsBurgers themed. So GET EXCITED. Up first: our love for public datasets rivals that of Zeke's for Jimmy Junior. When we rescue datasets, we often say "We're gonna getchu!"

Logo and details for IASSIST 2026 virtual conference held June 2-5, sponsored by ICPSR, with a colorful overlapping circle design.

📆 Save the Date! The IASSIST virtual conference, “Championing Data: Data Professionals at the Nexus,” is June 2-5, 2026! ICPSR is the proud sponsor of IASSIST 2026! Find out more at https://myumi.ch/D8pp7

#IASSIST2026 #ICPSRconference

Save Our Signs: New photos, new maps, and a renewed sense of purpose The past four months have been a challenging and sobering time for the Save Our Signs team. Most of us live in Minneapolis and St. Paul and as the ICE occupation in Minnesota devastated our…

Exciting new project updates from the #SaveOurSigns team! New photos, a new Storymap, and an updated SOS Archive Map!

Plus a renewed sense of purpose! ❤️ 🛟

Join us and share with your friends, family, colleagues, mean uncle, everyone!

www.datarescueproject.org/save-our-sig...

Save Our Signs: New photos, new maps, and a renewed sense of purpose The past four months have been a challenging and sobering time for the Save Our Signs team. Most of us live in Minneapolis and St. Paul and as the ICE occupation in Minnesota devastated our communitie...

#SaveOurSigns has expanded our project database to include 2,500 new photos and created a new StoryMap visualization to help folks explore the recent leaked NPS dataset. Read more at the @datarescueproject.org blog: www.datarescueproject.org/save-our-sig...

As gov info geeks, we love CRS Reports anyway, but we especially love this one focused on the federal data.

Thanks so much for mentioning our work. And the work continues!

www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

DRP satirical statement on the kitkat theft

For those who have not heard, 12 tons of #KitKats were stolen in Europe. We don't REALLY have enough KitKats to send to every DRP rescuer for every rescued dataset...but maybe we do, who knows.

[posted while eating an undisclosed chocolate bar]

Feb 3, 2025 - We started fighting to save our data.
July 3, 2025 - We launched #SaveOurSigns with Minn librarians.
April 2026 - We are still talking about the importance of public data as a public good.

❤️🛟

A Disappearing Data Chronology About the ExhibitThe Disappearing Data Chronology documents fundamental changes to the federal information landscape under the Trump administration, including major data losses and restorations, legal...

Today, the Archive published a Disappearing Data Chronology--a timeline tracking changes in access to federal information under Trump, including major data losses and restorations, legal challenges to information takedowns, and threats to archival collections. nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...

Just possessing a dataset isn't true preservation of your files. For this #MemeMonday, protect yourself against possible mishaps, and consider the 3-2-1 backup rule, add relevant documentation and metadata, and deposit your data in a reputable repository for reference and reuse.

There’s plenty you can do with #SaveOurSigns

I’m excited to join @uksg.bsky.social for #UKSG2026 & talk about @datarescueproject.org But also keen to learn more about OA publishing & more. I spend so much time in open data that I have to work against professional myopia.

Fedscope Datasets from OPM Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Data rescue highlight! ⚡

We recently helped facilitate the backing up of some of the Fedscope datasets that include race and ethnicity. This data accompanies this report from National Women's Law Center

Thanks to Sarah Javaid! ❤️
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr...
nwlc.org/wp-content/u...

IASSIST 2026 - Main Page IASSIST is an international organization of professionals working in and with information technology and data services to support research and teaching in the social sciences and beyond.

We love data (of all kinds)! There are a few great conferences coming up to learn about data including @rdapassociation.bsky.social. Check out @iassistdata.bsky.social as well for another great virtual conference around data! iassistdata.org/conferences/... Registration opens in April!

Listening to Lynda Kellam speak about her work with the @datarescueproject.org Inspired and in awe of the collective work to save public data by this group! This American in the USA is grateful for you and what you do! #RLUK26

A fun podcast with our partners @safeguardingdata.bsky.social and the SCIOP crew.

This is quite a ride: www.librarypunk.gay/e/160-sciopn...

Check out their work at sciop.net

Help Protect At-Risk Humanitarian Archives In late 2025, members of the DRP Steering Committee traveled to the University of Manchester, UK, to attend the launch of the Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE) Project. As we have seen in the US…

New DRP post: Help Protect At-Risk Humanitarian Archives. We aim to support a range of data rescue projects. This one from the Univ of Manchester is an incredible effort to recognize the loss of many small humanitarian archives.

www.datarescueproject.org/humanitarian...

Moderated by @nurnberger.myatproto.social, join steering committee members @quetzal1234.bsky.social, @katscade.bsky.social, @halle-burns.bsky.social, and @lyndamk.bsky.social for what is sure to be an excellent conversation!

For this #MemeMonday, we have some exciting news: DRP will be the keynote for the upcoming @rdapassociation.bsky.social Summit. Join us for a discussion on where we've been, where we're headed, and how you can help shape our next chapter.

Register today: rdapassociation.org/summit

Save Our Signs image viewer The People's Archive of National Park Signs. Photographs of signs at National Park Service (NPS) sites were taken by volunteers and submitted to the Save Our Signs project.

You can view the photos from the dropdown by site. Select a site on this page and you can view all the photos from that site. sos-sandbox.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/sos-public-v...
If you need more than that, email them and they can give you more info!

Home Save Our Signs Let's Build the People's Archive of National Park Signs

Try this one: sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...

Signs of the times: Removing stories of America's past from our national parks Following an executive order from President Trump, the Department of the Interior has removed dozens of educational signs at our national parks that the administration claims promote "divisive narrati...

Stories of removal from all over the U.S. on @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy #SaveOurSigns continues to accept pictures of interpretive panels. Submit them at saveoursigns.org

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/sig...

❤️🛟

The Federal Register is like the "Facebook for the federal government." ❤️ Attending @dataindex.us webinar on the public comment process. Thanks for demystifying this process!

Tracking Gov Info A project that tracks removed, modified, and impacted federal government information & resources

@trackgovinfo.bsky.social is a group of librarians “tracking actions by the current administration that impact government info,” including “removed or modified documents & websites; language censorship; suspension or elimination of agencies, programs, funding, or services; & collection of gov data.”

The DRP is represented this week at a convening @archive.org with @lyndamk.bsky.social @katscade.bsky.social @quetzal1234.bsky.social

We are looking forward to meeting everyone soon!

And seeing this former church sitch...